1905 Revolution

• causes of the 1905 Revolution:

  • poor working conditions
  • redemption payments
  • losing Russo-Japanese war
  • food shortages
  • governments violent and oppressive policies
  • middle class
  • poor harvests
  • economic slump
  • poor living conditions for peasants
  • Bloody Sunday
• in February 1905, 400,000 workers went on strike in protest of Bloody Sunday
• a railway workers strike paralysed the country
• Moscow uprising was crushed by the army and parts of the city were flattened